Oversea Designs Shown In Wool Fashion Display
THE two wedding groups shown at the parade are pictured. From the left they are—Meg Gibson wears a mist blue wool crepe bridesmaid's…
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Farming & the land, 1947
864 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 27 of 44
U.S. Manufacturers Complain About High Wool Prices
NEW YORK, Monday.—American textile manufacturers are complaining bitterly at soaring Australian wool prices…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday.—Higher values established at the opening wool sales on Monday were fully maintained for practically all fleece…
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SYDNEY.—Good rain has fallen over the most of the wheat-growing areas of N.S.W. and has further enhanced the prospects of a bumper…
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CANBERRA, Tuesday.—A decline in the number, of livestock in Australia is shown in figures released by the Commonwealth Statistician…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dominion Wool Surplus In Britain Reduced "Herald" Service
BRADFORD, Sept. 16.—The Joint organisation for the orderly disposal of the Dominion wool surplus announces that the total surplus for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Higher Accident Rate On Farms "Herald" Service
LONDON, Sept. 16.—A survey of seven Warwickshire farms shows the proportion of accidents among farm workers as about seven times that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Syllabus For Farm Management Course Improved
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The second refresher course in farm management for ex-servicemen in New South Wales will commence at Wagga…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gloucester Butter Pay 1/7¾
GLOUCESTER, Wednesday.— Cream suppliers to the Gloucester Cooperative Dairy Company Ltd. were paid 1/7¾ for choicest and 1/5¾…
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BRIISBANE, Wednesday.—The Australasian record price of 93d was paid at the wool sales to-day for two bales of scoured wool from…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Melbourne woolbrokers report that on the concluding days of the first series of the Melbourne wool sales…
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BRISBANE, Thursday.—Another Australian record price for scoured wool was obtained at the wool sales to-day when 95½d was paid for two…
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BOMBAY, Sept. 18. A.A.P.— Floods sweeping across Chittagon affected hundreds of thousands [?] people, and destroyed crops over a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →High Wool Prices Expected When Sydney Sales Resume
SYDNEY: Keen demand and high prices for scoured and greasy wools are expected to continue in the coming series of Sydney wool sales. Record price of 93d lb, was given…
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Among the competitors at Singleton Show yesterday were these two youngsters—Brian Bowland and his Jersey calf…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farmers Build Electric Fence To Stop Dingoes
To protect their sheep from dingoes and dingo cross-breeds, a group of farmers between Singleton and Jerry's Plains have erected eight…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Singleton Placed in Butter Championship
SINGLETON, Sunday. — At the Australian butter championship exhibition at Adelaide, in the section for a box of butter for export, the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →South Africa Wants Australian Wheat
SYDNEY, Sunday.—South Africans wanted Australian wheat, and were opposed to its sale to India, said Mr. E. G. Myer to-day…
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TOKYO, September 21. — Substantial quantities of high-grade Australian wool will soon be bought by the Japanese via General MacArthur's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wallsend Junior Farmers
Wallsend Junior Farmer' Club will make plans on Thursday night for the annual spring show, to be held at Plattsburg School in November…
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